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Dr. Leonie Gerhards is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at King's Business School, King's College London. Their research explores how behavioral factors influence individual and organizational decision-making, with a focus on peer effects, social norms, and feedback mechanisms.
- Educational background: University of Bonn (undergraduate), Goethe University Frankfurt (PhD), and postdoctoral work at Aarhus University and University of Hamburg.
Research areas span organizational economics, behavioral and experimental economics, overconfidence, and social norms. Recent publications examine information externalities, reproducibility in research, and self-serving attribution biases. Collaborations include institutions in Germany, Denmark, and the UK.
- Key journals: The Economic Journal, Management Science, Experimental Economics.
Leonie actively supervises PhD students and employs theory-informed experiments to link lab findings to real-world behaviors. They are affiliated with interdisciplinary networks addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those related to social norms, peer effects, and organizational efficiency.
